To:M. M. KHARITONOV

Written:Written at the beginning of August 1916Published:First published in 1964 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 49.

      Sent from Flums to Zurich.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

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DearComrade,

Nadyais giving you a secret meeting place, password and ways of
communicating with us for
Marcu.[2]

Lethim ask a French- or German-speaking person to come to Petrograd
(through the secret address) and tell him ingreatest possible
detailall the foreign news about the movement of theLefts,
aboutVorboteNo.1and No.2, about our
disputes on disarmament (I am sending my
			       article[1];

show it to him—incidentally, write mewhere Nobs is), about the
GermanArbeiterpolitik,[3]about the arrests in Germany, about
Longuet and the Longuetists in France, about the arrest of Maclean in
England, and generallyallabout the movement of the Lefts and
internationalists in Europe and America in greater detail?

Thenlet him offer his services (there, in Petrograd) to call on the
way at Moscow, Kiev, Odessa (where he is travelling) for the same purpose
and for passing on the address for letters to us.

Teachhim (thoroughly) to write with invisible ink and tomaintainthe strictest secrecyin Russia: he must act the
part of a soldier who is going to Rumania to fight, and stick to that!

Wedon’t know yet when we shall be back. Probably not before a
fortnight.

Greetings,Yours,Lenin

[1]Nobswill correct the languagehimself.  —Lenin

[2]Thisrefers to Valeriu Marcu, a Rumanian Social-Democrat who lived in
Switzerland during the war. In 1916 he went to Paris, Moscow and Rumania on
Lenin’s errand.

[3]Arbeiterpolitik—a weekly devoted to questions of scientific
socialism, organ of the Bremen group of Left Radicals headed by Johann
Knief and Paul Fröhlich. The group joined the Communist Party of Germany
in 1919. The journal was published in Bremen from 1916 to 1919.

Afterthe October Revolution the journal devoted considerable space to
information about life in Soviet Russia.

Thereference below is to Shlyapnikov’s article “Workers’ Russia
During Twenty Months of War” published later inSbornikNo. 1.